2000 Carats

About the Book

2000 CARATS is an exciting read from cover to cover, holding the reader to ransom until the last page. This dramatically narrated novel, built around a true story from 1969/70, reveals how the world's largest rough diamond was stolen by a mine-worker. The author lived 12 years in Africa, and is one of four survivors involved in the events at the time. This epic story, filled with trepidation and nerve-tingling tension, packed with facts, drama, romance and erotism, unfolds and fires the reader's imagination while he follows the fugitive thief's escape through several continents. This book provides first class entertainment with a difference:

The core of this amazing story is true!

Warning: The content of this book contains strong passages and explicit material and may not be suitable for sensitive readers.

About the Author

Steen Marcussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark into a family of scientists, researches and artists. After school he studied music (opera) as a baritone at The Royal Danish Music conservatory.

He later decided to pursue a commercial career and completed his studies at Copenhagen Commercial College, joined Ford Motor Company and left Denmark for overseas assignments at 24. Steen is a true world traveller with an inquisitive mind and a strong drive for exploration. In particular he is an old African hand who spent 12 years in various African countries and still follows Africa and its people with keen interest, as the cradle it is of all mankind.

Noticing the pressure of civilization on the tropical forest belt causing untold, permanent damage to the world's environment often by devastation of DDT and other chemicals, he became professionally concerned with finding green solutions to a number of environmental problems within public health. He thus developed and industrialized an entire series of ecological insect traps to assist in the supression of tropical diseases without chemical stress on the environment. Products used by the Red Cross, Oxfam etc.

During his career Steen became the Royal Danish Consul in the Channel Islands (UK) for over 10 years and is decorated with the Knights order of Denmark.

Today Steen lives inside a protected natural park in Southern France where he is busy writing three new books, one with a futuristic perspective of man's survival after an all out atomic war has ravaged our present civilisation, another about a newborn's life as an adult in 2050 and finally another book called Burn the Rule Book about survival in marginal situations through replacing rules with lots of common sense. The book is mixed with unique happenings of drama, sometimes intermingled with irresistable hilarity.